The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Nide 9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... Poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an ...
... Poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an ...
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... Poets are scarcely thought " freemen of their company without paying some " duties , or obliging themselves to be ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
... Poets are scarcely thought " freemen of their company without paying some " duties , or obliging themselves to be ... poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a ...
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... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their Works and May's Poem appeared * , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
... Poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of Latin Poetry , in which the English , till their Works and May's Poem appeared * , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
Sivu 19
... poetry réxvn μiŋlıxǹ , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imi- tated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted ...
... poetry réxvn μiŋlıxǹ , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imi- tated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted ...
Sivu 24
... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions ...
... poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions ...
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Absalom and Achitophel admired Æneid afterwards ancients appears beauties better blank verse censured character Charles Charles Dryden composition Comus considered Cowley criticism death defend delight diction dramatick Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry epick Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius Heaven heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden kind King knowledge known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Roscommon Marriage à-la-mode ment Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost Parliament passions perhaps perusal Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry pounds praise preface produced publick published racter reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sent sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat style supposed thee thing thou thought tion tragedy translation truth Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller words write written wrote
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Sivu 93 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Sivu 417 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Sivu 77 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Sivu 98 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Sivu 154 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Sivu 22 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Sivu 174 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Sivu 21 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Sivu 104 - It were injurious to omit, that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house, when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Sivu 437 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.